Day Democratic Therapeutic Community Network (DDTCN) – ‘The Network’

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Origins Membership Function Developments

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Origins:

► Three, one-day-per week Democratic Therapeutic Communities (DTC’s) – satellite services established in Webb House era – planning meetings set up for staff & service user consultants. Set up evaluated by Dr. Barbara Rawlings (2003/4) ► ‘ Four DTC services involved in HaCCRU evaluation: Evaluation of Day Services run by agency partnerships and Therapeutic Community Service North (TCSN) – Barr, et al - 2008 ► DDTC Network established - during the TCSN era, following closure of Webb House in 2004 ‘Day Therapeutic Community services for people with personality disorder: a new approach’ – Gopfert &Hellin, et al. – 2006 ► Network has grown & developed substantially since

DDTCN Membership:

service user consultants & staff from 10 current DTC’s with 1 joining and 2 more in planning phase: ► ► ► ► ► ► ► ► ► ► Rotunda – Liverpool (est. 2002) Diverse Pathways – Leeds (est. 2003 - CoC accredited) Fifteen – Manchester (est. 2005) TaSTE – Tameside and Stockport Therapeutic Environment (est. 2007) The Orb – Oldham, Rochdale & Bury (est. 2008) 2 B – Burnley (est. 2008) Waterside – Birkenhead (est. 2008) Taith – Wrexham (est. 2009) Jigsaw – Chorley (est. 2010) TES TC – Trafford (est. 2011) ► ► ► Denton House TC – Northwich (est. 2012) - a new DTC service just started – in process of joining DDTCN Blackpool? A 3 rd Lancashire Care DTC is being planned

Chester ?

Closed ► PiE (Personality in Education) – Manchester University ► 174 – Bolton

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Function: “Not to re-invent the wheel”

► ► ► ► ► ► ► ► ► Meets quarterly – hosted in rotation Learn from each other & appreciate differences Share experiences & resources Develop services Determine, monitor and maintain standards Support forum for service user consultants and staff Identify unmet training needs and provide in-house training Developing a peer review system Identify and develop future evaluation of services

DDTCN Developments:

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Inter-service visits

DDTCN planning for annual visits between services to monitor standards and offer constructive comments – representative group of service users, service user consultants & staff ►

Annual Training Event

2011 – Unstructured time 2012 – The role of the service user consultant

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The future ?

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References: ► Barr, W. Hodge, S. and Kirkcaldy, A. (2008) – Evaluation of Day Services run by agency partnerships and Therapeutic Community Service North (TCSN) - HaCCRU ► Gopfert, M. & Hellin, K. et al. (2006) A weekly day therapeutic community service for people with personality disorder: an innovative model. Psychiatric Bulletin ► Pearce, S. & Haigh, R. (2008) – Mini Therapeutic Communities – A New Development in the United Kingdom, therapeutic communities, 29, 2.

► Rawlings, B. (2004) Setting Up New Services: how service users were involved in planning therapeutic community day programmes, Therapeutic Communities, 24 (1), pp. 245-257.

► Rawlings, B. (2004) Interagency Collaboration: working in partnership to plan therapeutic community day services for personality disorder - unpublished An electronic copy of Dr. Barbara Rawlings unpublished paper can be obtained by contacting her on: [email protected]